KARACHI: The reconstruction of Karachi’s Shaheed-e-Millat Expressway roads would be completed within a year, city’s administrator Murtaza Wahab said on Friday.

“These roads will be constructed from KPT Flyover to the Manzoor Colony Fire Station,” he told reporters after the groundbreaking ceremony of the rehabilitation of the Shaheed-e-Millat Expressway. “Neither any law regarding domicile and the PRC has been made in recent days, nor has the cabinet approved any such law. After the rains, the reconstruction of the city’s roads has started.”

Wahab, who belongs to the Pakistan Peoples Party, said that service roads, footpaths, street lights and a drainage system had also been included in the project.

“Roads of this mega project will be developed on a long life pattern.”

The city administrator said that residents of Defence, Korangi Industrial Area, Qayyumabad and adjoining areas would be able to travel in less time after the road reconstruction.

“The width of the main road is 40 feet while a 4.52km dual carriageway will be constructed,” he said and requested those who are doing politics on flood disasters that it was not the time for politics and stressed the need for working together.

There have been extremely heavy rains this year as compared to previous years that had caused severe damage to several Sindh districts, he added.

He said that earlier road reconstruction and repair work could not be started due to the rains. Two more roads were added to the project of under construction roads of the Site Industrial Area.

“Carpeting of roads in the central district is being completed and the road construction work will continue on a daily basis,” Wahab said.